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Chapter III – The European Patent Office

Overview

Article 1513
Departments entrusted with the procedure

16th edition: this version presents the text in force on 1 July 2020.

To carry out the procedures laid down in this Convention, the following shall be set up within the European Patent Office:

(a) a Receiving Section; 

(b) Search Divisions; 

(c) Examining Divisions; 

(d) Opposition Divisions; 

(e) a Legal Division; 

(f) Boards of Appeal; 

(g) an Enlarged Board of Appeal. 

13See opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 1/02 (Annex I).

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